MEDIEBEDRIFTENES LANDSFORENING
Norwegian Media Businesses Association
Norwegian Media Businesses' Association (MBL) is the media trade- and tariff organisation in Norway. The organisation counts approximately 311 member businesses, of which 172 are newspapers, 21 printing offices, 26 distribution companies, 24 TV companies, 13 advertising groups, 15 media groups, 11 magazines, 9 multimedia companies, 3 press agencies, 2 radio stations and 1 advertising company.
The Norwegian Media Businesses' Association’s objectives are to:
- attend to members common interests, thereby contributing to a diverse, independent and economically healthy industry;
- secure editorial independence, and work towards securing an overall framework beneficial to the industry’s competitiveness and profitability, thereby securing jobs within the industry;
- promote contact and cooperation between members, and between members and employees;
- initiate common initiatives in cases where the members deem it necessary and useful.
In order to achieve the above objective, MBL’s work is divided into four priority areas:
- Negotiations and representing employers: Representing employers in collective bargaining, and in general.
- Media and business law: Copyright, press ethics, freedom of expression and other legal issues to do with the media.
- Industrial policies: Promoting legislation and industrial policies which are conducive to a prosperous business climate and ensuring framework conditions for the industry which are consistent with this goal.
- Documentation and Media Convergence: Statistics, analysis, media convergence and digital media.